Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pittendrigh added, however, that he did not expect many students to follow this course, since "no graduate students is likely to be so stupid that he won't think his decision out carefully. Going to jail or running off to Canada is more than simply a way to avoid something distasteful...
There was nothing nostalgic about what happened in the ladies' luge competition: a clear case of cheating-and stupid cheating at that. Ranking first, second and fourth going into the final run, a trio of East German women tried for a little extra edge by illegally heating the runners of their sleds. They were caught and disqualified...
...that much of the trustees' antagonism at the previous meeting was a visceral reaction to the notion of "student power," and she emphasized repeatedly to the four trustees around the table of the Hilles seminar room, "We don't want to run the College. That is impossible, ridiculous, and stupid. We want to be recognized as rational and responsible...
...wanted to be found and when conditions were all in his favor. Now he has very obligingly congregated in the heart of the cities and sits there waiting to be wiped out. As long as the enemy stayed in the jungle he had all the edge. Now for some stupid reason he has thrown it all away. When Hanoi realizes what a fiasco this operation is, they may very well call off the intended offensive in the North...
...during a five-day tour of South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong opened fire with mortars. The incident might have been all to Percy's good as publicity, but the popular reaction was: "Any man who would take his wife into a situation like that is plain stupid." Percy protests that his wife invariably travels abroad with him and produces politically useful movies of his adventures. Besides, says he, "it never entered my head that there was any undue danger...